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and later republican ticket mitt romney and paul ryan host a rally in lancaster, ohio. and we'll have that live for you as well, starting at 5:40 p.m. eastern, also on c-span. >> can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud? i think there is a need if we could take a poll here with the folks from gallup, perhaps. i think there is a real need at this point to focus on the need. >> how do you respond, how do you gentleman respond to -- >> i agree with him. >> i think in general let's talk about these, let's talk about these issues. let's talk about the programs, but in the presidency, a lot goes into it. caring goes into it. that is not particularly specific. strength goes into it in, that is not specific. standing up against aggression. that is not specific in terms of a program. this is what a president has to do. so in principle though, i'll take your point and think we ought to discuss child care or, whatever else it is. >> and you two? >> ross had his hand up. >> no hedges, if, and or buts i will take the pledge. the american people want to talk a
and later republican ticket mitt romney and paul ryan host a rally in lancaster, ohio. and we'll have that live for you as well, starting at 5:40 p.m. eastern, also on c-span. >> can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud? i think there is a need if we could take a poll here with the folks from gallup, perhaps. i think there is a real need at this point to focus on the need. >> how do you respond, how do you gentleman respond to -- >> i agree with him....
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the ryan budget -- now the romney-ryan budget, since mr. romney called it marvelous, the romney-ryan budget would end medicare and make it a voucher care, a voucher care system. that would force seniors to pay nearly $6,000 more per year out of their pocket for health care in the future. and lastly, they offset these tax cuts by raising taxes on the middle class, actually raising taxes on the middle class. mr. ryan's budget is to use the deficit crisis as a pretext for dismantling medicare, medicaid, cutting education, environmental protection agency, workplace safety and all the things i've said. what they do is they double down on the theory that if we just give more and more to those at the top, it will trickle down to everybody else. that theory was tried under president george w. bush, and it didn't work out too well. today i just want to focus more on the devastating impact of the ryan-romney budget on medicare and on health care generally. since he first arrived in congress, representative ryan has consistently pushed a very specific
the ryan budget -- now the romney-ryan budget, since mr. romney called it marvelous, the romney-ryan budget would end medicare and make it a voucher care, a voucher care system. that would force seniors to pay nearly $6,000 more per year out of their pocket for health care in the future. and lastly, they offset these tax cuts by raising taxes on the middle class, actually raising taxes on the middle class. mr. ryan's budget is to use the deficit crisis as a pretext for dismantling medicare,...
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ryan or governor romney on this concept? family next, charles, west palm beach on the democrat line. >> hello, how are you doing? i'm interested in talking about this birth control now. i think all these crack babies on those other things ought to be sent off to these republican houses. they want to stop birth control. that should be the way it goes. as far as jobs go, you need to bring back production, manufacture. manufacturing is the only thing that's going to bring this government back. really think it will bring our economy up to me, you can work in diners, you can work in restaurants and all the other things. as far as the guy was just on who goes, a nine, $10 an hour job if you're living in los angeles or even were i am, you pay the rent of seven, $900 a month for a little squalor, well, try to live on $9 an hour doing that. >> host: taking your calls on the values voter summit going on all day today. san diego, the independent call. >> caller: good afternoon. how you doing? hey, i was in the middle as far as he was v
ryan or governor romney on this concept? family next, charles, west palm beach on the democrat line. >> hello, how are you doing? i'm interested in talking about this birth control now. i think all these crack babies on those other things ought to be sent off to these republican houses. they want to stop birth control. that should be the way it goes. as far as jobs go, you need to bring back production, manufacture. manufacturing is the only thing that's going to bring this government...
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and this is not using yom-ryan math. these -- romney-ryan math. these are valid numbers. by comparison, in lyndon johnson's six years as majority leader, -- i could ask everyone here to take a guess as to how many filibusters he had to -- how many filibusters he had to overcome. remember, these were the years that he was president, you had the civil rights stuff going on, all kinds of problems. everyone would fail the test. he had to overcome one filibuster. so i hope our republican colleagues will join us tomorrow as we vote to advance this measure. it's too bad we have had to have -- file cloture on moving to proceed to this bill. the heroes who fought for their country overseas shouldn't have to fight for a job once they get home. tomorrow also marks the 11th anniversary of the september 11 terrorist attacks. the date is a reminder that through more than a decade of war, the bravery and dedication of american armed forces have never wavered, and it's a reminder that our commitment to those fine young men and women should never waiver either. mr. president, i move to pr
and this is not using yom-ryan math. these -- romney-ryan math. these are valid numbers. by comparison, in lyndon johnson's six years as majority leader, -- i could ask everyone here to take a guess as to how many filibusters he had to -- how many filibusters he had to overcome. remember, these were the years that he was president, you had the civil rights stuff going on, all kinds of problems. everyone would fail the test. he had to overcome one filibuster. so i hope our republican colleagues...
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we take responsibility and i have news for 0 governor romney and congressman ryan. it's never ever going to be a good bet to bet against the american people. ever. ladies and gentlemen, join me welcoming in my friend, our president, president obama! [cheering and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] ♪ hello, ohio! [cheering and applause] are you fired ?up are you ready to go? [cheering and applause] i just want to make sure. are you fired up? [cheering and applause] are you ready to go? [cheering and applause] before we get started, i want everybody to give a big round of applause to joe biden. [cheering and applause] now first of all, you need to know joe biden is a man who is literally in love with a teacher. he doesn't just say i love teachers. he's married to a teacher. [cheering and applause] but more important, i want everybody to understand this, i could not ask for a better partner than my vice president joe biden. [cheering and applause] there's nobody who knows more about foreign policy than my vice president. there's knob who gives me better advice
we take responsibility and i have news for 0 governor romney and congressman ryan. it's never ever going to be a good bet to bet against the american people. ever. ladies and gentlemen, join me welcoming in my friend, our president, president obama! [cheering and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] ♪ hello, ohio! [cheering and applause] are you fired ?up are you ready to go? [cheering and applause] i just want to make sure. are you fired up? [cheering and applause] are you ready to go?...
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they are based on projections of the ryan budget plan, not the romney budget plan. of course, right that the vice president attended but this is something he put forth as the chairman of the house budget committee. second of all, we don't know what the democrats plan is to find pell because they haven't passed a budget in more than three years in congress. and the obama industries has put forward no ideas as to how it's going to pay for the fiji billion dollars funding shortfall that the pell grants program faces over the next 10 years. if you apply the same stand you're applying for and ryan, who said just because they have is another going to pay for something that we send their going to cut it, then president obama is proposing cuts to the pell grants program as well. >> the president has laid out a very specific budget that you can go online and look at, the 2013 budget would increase by two points are%. out specific -- >> for one year. >> the language or an refocusing pell grants on those who need it most, to me, i don't know what students and families are gett
they are based on projections of the ryan budget plan, not the romney budget plan. of course, right that the vice president attended but this is something he put forth as the chairman of the house budget committee. second of all, we don't know what the democrats plan is to find pell because they haven't passed a budget in more than three years in congress. and the obama industries has put forward no ideas as to how it's going to pay for the fiji billion dollars funding shortfall that the pell...
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wants to get on taxes or, indeed, where mitt romney wants to get in terms of lowering the rate, you would have to get rid of almost all deductions, exemptions, exclusions. that means the tough stuff that no one must talk about. the home mortgage deduction, the exclusion of employer paid health benefits, charitable deductions, state and local taxes, you name it. he's a very controversial issues there are ways of putting together a plan that will still protect homeowners but be less generous to those of the top. but nobody has been willing to talk about that on the republican side of the campaign. there is the spade king, if we're going to lower rates and it will all work out. >> but want those things need to be on the table? >> certainly if you're talking about drafting the race, 35 to 25% or 39% where it would otherwise go, you're going to have to do exactly what she said and i think that is my point. when i say tax reform is part of this process, it's very hard to get done in a six week time frame because i think there is going to be great reluctance to make radical changes. i thin
wants to get on taxes or, indeed, where mitt romney wants to get in terms of lowering the rate, you would have to get rid of almost all deductions, exemptions, exclusions. that means the tough stuff that no one must talk about. the home mortgage deduction, the exclusion of employer paid health benefits, charitable deductions, state and local taxes, you name it. he's a very controversial issues there are ways of putting together a plan that will still protect homeowners but be less generous to...
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and ryan said that's not what we're asking for. we are seeking to roll back a trillion dollars of cuts. what is in that $1 trillion of cuts? what is included? >> for the best of my knowledge, if you at $487 billion of the budget control act cut to the $492 billion that right now we're facing on the fiscal cliff, with sequestration, that nobody wants but that the president has already said he will veto if it's not exactly pashtun is this an effort, think about this but it is an effort to exempt defense, the president is prepared to veto congressional action and let us all go over the fiscal cliff, which frankly, is not my idea of how to do with the problem but that's the president thank you. let's say that happen. let's say congress says we really cannot jeopardize our national defense but the president says fine, i'd be do the he didn't veto the budget control act buddies ready to be do this. 492 billion plus 487 billion is awfully close to a trillion dollars. >> if i could just clarify the veto threat. go ahead. >> he didn't seem,
and ryan said that's not what we're asking for. we are seeking to roll back a trillion dollars of cuts. what is in that $1 trillion of cuts? what is included? >> for the best of my knowledge, if you at $487 billion of the budget control act cut to the $492 billion that right now we're facing on the fiscal cliff, with sequestration, that nobody wants but that the president has already said he will veto if it's not exactly pashtun is this an effort, think about this but it is an effort to...
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in the exit poll he lost even with paul ryan on the ticket for the medicare plan was deeply unpopular among seniors. 60% of white seniors voted for romney and over 60% of the non-call their whites voted for romney. so, i think that they are problematic for democrats and having said that the always from a little better among the blue collar voters in that region and elsewhere. few of them are evangelicals, that helps. look at north carolina to a i don't know if the exit polls -- i will tell you in north carolina or virginia, obama's number on the blue-collar whites are unbelievably low like in the high 20s or around 30 come some of them are even evangelicals. but in long run i do think that the imf pattern, the new democratic coalition is a party and the sunbelt will be more important in the west velte although they do have this incredible the to hold on to wisconsin and minnesota. but by and large i think the shift will be more towards states shaped by the same social forces that obama has embodied in the rising education levels. >> on the question we had a slight disagreement i don't
in the exit poll he lost even with paul ryan on the ticket for the medicare plan was deeply unpopular among seniors. 60% of white seniors voted for romney and over 60% of the non-call their whites voted for romney. so, i think that they are problematic for democrats and having said that the always from a little better among the blue collar voters in that region and elsewhere. few of them are evangelicals, that helps. look at north carolina to a i don't know if the exit polls -- i will tell you...
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paul ryan nominated for the vp commesso it seems like suddenly wisconsin is back in the republican column. >> and abby livingston is denied the and only debate or is there a series? >> i don't know that off the top of my head but it is going to be an interesting evening because governor thompson is a statewide brand. he is known not as governor thompson, but tommie and he will be speaking as a liberal. that is too liberal for nancy pelosi, and she is one of several members of congress for a single district statewide so she is trying to define herself in a positive way and he is going to define her negatively. >> that debate will be live from wisconsin. we will broadcast it live from c-span 9 p.m. eastern time. tommy thompson and tammy baldwin. >>> i was always shocked as i think anybody that spends a lot of time on campaigns. most of the people i talked to couldn't explain why they did anything that they were doing. like how do you know that, why do you do that? and at some point they've always done it that way or because they had some sort of rules that it wasn't really based on any rese
paul ryan nominated for the vp commesso it seems like suddenly wisconsin is back in the republican column. >> and abby livingston is denied the and only debate or is there a series? >> i don't know that off the top of my head but it is going to be an interesting evening because governor thompson is a statewide brand. he is known not as governor thompson, but tommie and he will be speaking as a liberal. that is too liberal for nancy pelosi, and she is one of several members of...
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choice paul ryan continued day bus tour in the ohio. that state is considered a battleground focus after president obama won it in 2008. ohio as 18 a month tour of votes. you will see that rally at 3:00 eastern on our companion network c-span. on c-span2 colin powell will talk about a role of the u.s. in europe in the arabs spring and from nato secretary-general xavier salona live at 3:15. .. >> the first debate between presidential candidates mitt romney and president barack obama is next wednesday october 3rd. the news hour's jim lehrer moderates from the university of denver. watch and engage with c-span including our live debate preview starting at 7:30 pmt eastern followed by the domestic policy debate at 9:00. post-debate reactions and comments, calls, e-mails and tweets. follow our live coverage on c-span, c-span radio and on-line at c-span.org. >>> last week the senate special committee on aging examined the high incidents of faulty claims to medicare for powered wheelchairs. we'll hear from a medicare official who outlines a ne
choice paul ryan continued day bus tour in the ohio. that state is considered a battleground focus after president obama won it in 2008. ohio as 18 a month tour of votes. you will see that rally at 3:00 eastern on our companion network c-span. on c-span2 colin powell will talk about a role of the u.s. in europe in the arabs spring and from nato secretary-general xavier salona live at 3:15. .. >> the first debate between presidential candidates mitt romney and president barack obama is...
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that's why you, the romney budget or the paul ryan budget get in to specific. they cut discretionary spending by 20% overall we're not going tell you what the specifics are. if you do you get in had to cuts in food safety and meat inspection, cuts in small airports because you have to cut out the faa in health research, fema and homeland security. that's where the money is. big bird doesn't help much on the front. and i think that's part of the argument we have ahead. obama very specifically said he wanted deal that would have $1 in revenue increases for every 2.50 in budget cuts. we're talking about a 3 30-70 ratio being there. he endorsed the gang of six plan the coburn and durbin, et al. plan and made it clear that he understands that accepting especially cut backs in medicare and medicated in the -- medicaid in the future group as a part overall deal has to be done if you can do the other side of the coin. my guess is and i'm confident on it that if simpson and bowels and coburn and chambliss and durbin and conrad and ben -- bennett all agree on a deal obam
that's why you, the romney budget or the paul ryan budget get in to specific. they cut discretionary spending by 20% overall we're not going tell you what the specifics are. if you do you get in had to cuts in food safety and meat inspection, cuts in small airports because you have to cut out the faa in health research, fema and homeland security. that's where the money is. big bird doesn't help much on the front. and i think that's part of the argument we have ahead. obama very specifically...
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like florida, romney ran pretty well. he had a deficit on the issue, but i think was about seven points. but not -- not huge. i really don't think the medicare issue heard from me all that much of the end of the day. >> at the end of the exit poll the question was who was better handled the issue of medicare, 52 period 45 in favor of the president but it wasn't a motivating factor. what was interesting for me is looking at the house races where several of the candidates that had made the budget an issue in their own races whether they were primaries or special elections they actually all lost. i think there were four candidates that lost on the issue including cathy in new york and mark kristen pennsylvania. and then on the issue of health care and repealing it, what should happen to the 2010 health care law, 49% said repeal some or all of it, 44% said expand or leave it as it is. that it didn't seem like it was as much of a decisive issue. >> one more tiny bit of news. this may be not news to anybody but paul ryan said t
like florida, romney ran pretty well. he had a deficit on the issue, but i think was about seven points. but not -- not huge. i really don't think the medicare issue heard from me all that much of the end of the day. >> at the end of the exit poll the question was who was better handled the issue of medicare, 52 period 45 in favor of the president but it wasn't a motivating factor. what was interesting for me is looking at the house races where several of the candidates that had made the...